12. The Perfect Element
Pain of Salvation Lyrics

Yesterday found him today
He has long been trapped in a cycle of pain and despair, and his situation has not improved in the present.

Caught him at his last breath
He is on the verge of giving up on life altogether.

These walls built to stand come-what-may
Despite the strength of the walls surrounding him, they have been unable to protect him from his own torment.

Lie shattered in the ashes
His pain has taken a toll on everything around him, leaving nothing but destruction in its wake.

His skin against this dirty floor
He has been brought so low that he is literally in the dirt.

Eyes fixed on the ceiling
He is too exhausted to move, his eyesight remains fixed in one direction.

He has stretched those chains of sin
He has become a prisoner to his own vices, and cannot escape his own self-destructive nature.

Far beyond all feelings
His emotions have been dulled by his pain, leaving him numb to everything else.

Still, so still
He is barely clinging on to life.

In his head a thunderous
His mind is constantly in turmoil.

Cry of desperation
All he can do is scream out in anguish.

Tearing voices from his past
His past traumas continue to haunt him, resurfacing again and again.

Scream for his attention
His past haunts seem to be begging for his attention.

Behind those eyes a world explodes
He is slowly succumbing to his internal pain.

No one there to save him
He feels completely and utterly alone in his pain.

All pain that he's been passing on
He has been inadvertently hurting others in his pain.

Answers to his craving
His pain has become an addiction, and he craves it, despite the damage it causes.

Once more
His pain continues in the present, and there seems to be no end to it.

I will never leave this shame
He has internalized his pain and feels that he deserves it.

Falling beyond the point of no return
He is so deep in his pain that it feels as if he can never turn back from it.

Nothing to become and nothing left to burn
He feels that all possibilities have been exhausted, and there is nothing but emptiness left.

Stealing meaning from this child
He feels as if his suffering is a result of a traumatic past.

We took away his reason
He feels that he was forced to give up his reason to live by someone else's cruel actions.

His soul put under lock and key
His pain has imprisoned his soul.

His heart blackened from treason
He feels that he has been betrayed by someone close to him.

But if you take from those you fear
He realizes that the root of his pain comes from fear.

Everything they value
He feels that he has lost everything that was important to him.

You have bred the perfect beast
His pain has turned him into a monster of his own making.

Drained enough to kill you
His pain has become so all-consuming that it will ultimately lead to his own destruction.

Watching unseen untouched bleeding
He feels as if no one understands his pain or is able to help him.

Empty exposed dying eyes closed
He is slowly losing all hope and feels as if death is his only escape from the pain.

Once he had forests and mountains
Once, he had a sense of freedom and peace in his life.

That were only his - listening to him
Those joyful times are a distant memory, and he feels as if he will never recapture them.

Once he would run through the summer days
He had once been carefree and happy during the bright, sunny months of the year.

Catching memories for ages to come
He had once been able to create good times with people he cared about, with positive memories that he could cherish for years to come.

Now he is dressing this naked floor
His pain has brought him to the lowest point, and he is now throwing his body onto the ground in despair.

With his flesh and blood, and times passes by
He is slowly wasting away in his pain, with no end in sight.

His trade of pain might just have lead him
His past decisions may have led him down this path, to his current state of despair.

To deal with consequence
He must now face the results of his past actions head-on.

For some change as time passes by
He still holds onto a sliver of hope that he can change his life around, even as time passes by.

I am the waking child
He feels like he must keep moving forward, even in the face of pain.

(Lingering, climbing, clinging, clutching
In spite of pain, he continues to hold onto life.

Craving, clawing, hurting, falling down)
He is at war with himself, fighting to get up as pain attempts to knock him down.

I, the wayward son of a mountain lake
He is a wandering spirit, unsure of what his future holds.

(Of icy liquor tears, of a silent Earth)
He feels that the world is a cold and indifferent place.

(Of a rusty lid, of a wingless wind)
The world has become a painful, rusting prison for him, without the freedom to escape.

(Of an eyeless storm, of fallen gods,
He is struggling in a world that seems devoid of meaning, one which has forsaken its own promises

Who lost their way)
He is a lost and wandering soul.

I set myself on fire
He is willing to take drastic measures to escape his pain.

To breed the Perfect Element
He is willing to become engulfed by his own pain to become something new.

Will I ever walk again?
He's lost all hope that things will ever improve, leading to a feeling of helplessness.

(This is the end)
The feeling of defeat and acceptance has arrived

Nothing left to say,
He has probably already said everything he needs to say.

The pain will go away
He hopes that things will one day improve.

Now you must surely see,
Others will now see what he has gone through.

That you are killing me
Others have unknowingly caused him great harm.

You are killing me
His pain is being worsened by the actions of those around him.

(You must never leave this shame!)
He is pleading with others not to abandon him to his pain.